Perhaps the crisis in the humanities is not, then, merely a funding shortfall resulting from obtuseness and ambition among crass government bureaucrats and educational administrators; perhaps it began decades ago when scholars and teachers in the humanities forgot the purpose of their studies.

Mark's uncomfortable introspection gets further unasked-for stimulation from two students, one a smart, opinionated kid (Kieran Culkin) determined to share his detailed teacher evaluation, the other a dim housewife (Stephanie Cannon) who's borderline hostile in her obtuseness.

The actual claims in most of the letters can be easily refuted, but the sheer volume of such letters, combined with the determined obtuseness of most of the liberal haters, actually diminish my desire to respond at all to any one of them.

Smith, displaying a deft flair for comic obtuseness (and employing a voice that is so recognizably Lisa Simpson's as to be distracting) is convincingly lovestruck -- and peculiar enough that Gilliland's Ormsby should have hot-footed it or slammed the door in her face at the first sight of her.

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